Analyzing a key cause of infectious morbidity in immunosuppressed and immunocompromised patients, this source spans the most recent strategies to improve and expedite the diagnosis, identification, and treatment of fungal infections. With authoritative contributions from experienced clinicians in the field, this reference tracks developments in imaging, susceptibility testing, and strain typing to combat these conditions in transplant, surgical, oncology, and intensive care units.

Exploring breakthroughs in molecular biology, immunobiology, genomics, and proteomics, this source

• optimizes treatment strategies for invasive fungal infections in all patient groups through an integrative approach to clinical and laboratory data
• Emphasizes diagnostic regimens for the most commonly encountered fungal pathogens, invasive candidiasis, and aspergillosis
• Discusses the unique mechanisms and diagnostic characteristics of a wide variety of opportunistic mycoses
• Offers a step-by-step overview of diagnostic lab procedures including direct examination, culture, and histopathology, as well as chapters that illustrate the clinical presentations of these conditions
• Considers advances in the field over the past decade, and studies the impact of new methods in imaging, antigen detection, metabolite measurement, and fungal genome detection by PCR on the care of patients with these disorders